Slate Money: Movies: Magic Mike

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. Shane Ferro, former economics journalist and current public defender, stops by to talk about how Magic Mike is a film about the gig economy and the precarity of freelance work in a post Great Recession world. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to the Magic Mike episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies Season 2.
0:20.2	I'm Felix Amon of Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck.
0:23.6	Hello.
0:24.8	And we are here with...
0:26.8	I'm very excited about this one.
0:29.0	The one and only Shane Farrow. Welcome, Shane.
0:32.7	Hello. Thanks for having me.
0:34.8	Shane Farrow, for some people listening to this podcast, you do need an introduction.
0:39.2	So, who are you?
0:41.1	Well, I used to work with both of you in various publications.
0:46.0	Prior, I was an economics journalist at Reuters with Felix and at Huffington Post with Emily.
0:52.6	Then I went to law school and now I'm a public defender in New York City.
0:56.9	And you have a great newsletter?
0:58.4	Yes, I have a newsletter, ShaneF.substact.com.
1:02.2	It's called Cruel and Usual.
1:03.7	Talks about the mundane but horrific things that happen in the criminal legal system.
1:10.6	I always learned something when it appears in my inbox.
1:13.4	Shane is going to tell the story of when Shane and I went to the movies one drunk
1:17.2	and evening and watched Magic Mike XXL, which is not the movie we're going to be talking about today.
1:22.4	What is the movie we are talking about today?
1:24.8	They were talking about the first Magic Mike 2012 classic about the
1:31.8	precarity of being a freelancer in the post-Great Recession gig economy.
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